Sex cheats rumbled on Street View

It’s already damaged wildlife and a good number of reputations – but now it’s emerged Google’s Street View could seriously damage your marriage, too.

The mapping service, which allows users to ‘drive’ the streets of 25 British cities, has raised yet more privacy concerns after being cited in divorce cases.

Sex cheats rumbled on Street View

In the latest, a London woman launched legal proceedings after spotting her husband’s distinct Range Rover parked outside a female friend’s house.

She dated the image to a time when he claimed he was on a business trip. Another incident involved a wife finding a picture of her partner talking into a colleague’s ear in a way which ‘created the appearance of intimacy’, lawyers said.

Street View launched in the US in 2007 and is thought to have been cited in at least one divorce.

In Britain, concerns were raised about privacy after several people were caught on film in embarrassing situations, including a man being sick outside a pub.

It also emerged one of the cars used to capture the images ran over a deer.

Privacy International has lodged a complaint but experts said Google was unlikely to run into trouble over divorces.

‘Affairs could come to light by other means – they don’t necessarily need a camera on the street,’ said technology lawyer Struan Robertson.